Western North Dakota produces an astounding variety of fossils from the animals that lived alongside their more familiar neighbors 66 million years ago. Here we see a little piece of skin armor and additional bone fragments from dinosaurs, as well as a little bit of a turtle. North Dakota State paleontologist Dr. Clint Boyd has been taking a close look at these smaller but oftentimes more significant details of the environment at the end of the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs are just one part of the story. And, if we see a similar pattern across all of our different types of animals and plants, then that gives us a fuller picture of what's happening.

Students will explore the Cretaceous-Paleogene or K-Pg, boundary. Students will be looking at the K-Pg boundary, the actual moment of extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs.